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  • Published: 1 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781742537238
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 200

Tigers on the Beach




A novel about how comedy unites and divides us, from the award-winning author of The Shiny Guys and The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher.

Have you heard the one about the guy who lost a grandfather, but found a girlfriend? It's funny. It's also kind of sad. And some of the bits that are sad are also kind of funny (but only if you laugh at that sort of thing).
Adam thinks Samantha could be the one for him. But first he has to sort out his parents' crumbling marriage, stop getting into embarrassing situations involving public nudity, find out what's making his gran so angry, stop his little brother doing something really, really dangerous and work out what's so funny about two tigers on a beach. It can't be that hard, can it?
A novel about how comedy unites and divides us, from the award-winning author of The Shiny Guys and The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher.

  • Published: 1 March 2014
  • ISBN: 9781742537238
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 200

About the author

Doug MacLeod

Author, poet, playwright, screenwriter, songwriter and editor Doug MacLeod
wrote 26 books for children and young adults, published in Australia and around the world, beginning with Tales of Tuttle, published by Puffin in 1985. Many were bestsellers and won awards, including Sister Madge’s Book of Nuns (1986).
In 2008 the Australian Writers' Guild awarded him the Fred Parsons award for contribution to Australian comedy. He worked as head writer for some of Australia’s most popular TV comedy shows including The Comedy Company, Fast Forward, Full Frontal, Col’n Carpenter, Kylie Mole and Wedlocked. He also wrote for Big Girls’ Blouse, The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) and SeaChange, and was the script editor on Kath & Kim.
He also devised and co-wrote the animated series Dogstar screened all over the world, for which he won two Australian Writers’ Guild Awards and the inaugural John Hinde Award for Science Fiction. His best known book Sister Madge's Book of Nuns started as a practical joke on a publisher. He published more than twenty books with Penguin including Tigers on the Beach; The Life of a Teenage Body-Snatcher, a CBCA Honour Book in 2012 shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the Aurealis Awards; and The Shiny Guys, shortlisted for the 2013 CBCA Book of the Year Awards. One of his novels, The Clockwork Forest, was presented as a play by The Sydney Theatre Company in 2008, and in 2013 he wrote Margaret Fulton: Queen of the Dessert, a musical about the life of Margaret Fulton.

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Awards & recognition

CBCA Book of the Year Awards

Notable Book  •  2015  •  Older Readers